Comic Folk React to the Death of Stephen Hawking

The passing of Stephen Hawking at the age of 76, has been marked for his impact on pop culture as much as the understanding of the universe. Here’s how a few comic book industry-and-related people marked the occasion.

People opposed to affordable health care for all don't get to shed a tear for Hawking, who relied on it for the majority of his life to literally push the sum total knowledge of the human race forward.

OH NO! Stephen Hawking passed away. "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Well, I'm alright with being idiotic for one night while I refuse to live in a world bereft of his genius. #RIPStephenHawking

His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018. pic.twitter.com/nAanMySqkt

I have a small connection. My cousin Jonathan Jones was Stephen Hawking’s flatmate at University and is played by Daredevil in that film. He later married Jane Hawking and so Stephen’s extended family became part of ours.